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9. januar 1905

The Russian Revolution, 1905: Artistic impression of Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were shot at by the Imperial Guard in front of the Winter Palace on 22 January 1905. Source: http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//26/media-26740/large.jpg Public domain

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The 1905 Revolution: Russia’s great dress rehearsal. Part 65, – i: Neil Faulkner: A Marxist History of the World (Counterfire, 5 March 2012)

1905: The 1917 Revolution’s dress rehearsal. By Judy Cox (Counterfire, January 14, 2017). “The Russian Revolution of 1917 was led by a working class who, in 1905, had already tasted their own power and experienced bitter defeat.”

1905: Birth of a new power (Socialist Worker, Issue 1933, 8 January 2005). “One hundred years ago the workers and peasants of Russia rose up in revolution and shook their country’s rulers. Megan Trudell looks at the ”’great dress rehearsal’.”

From 1905 to our time. By Shelia Cohen (Against the Current, Issue 119, November-December 2005). “The focus here, is not on the ‘results’ of the 1905 revolution, but on its ‘prospects’.”

Rehearsing for 1917: Russia’s 1905 Revolution. By David Finkel (Against the Current, Issue 118, September-October 2005). “… the 1905 Revolution continues to yield new lessons, with hidden chapters of struggle recovered to inspire and educate us.”

A hidden story of the 1905-7 Russian Revolution: the unemployed Soviet. By Nikolaj Preobrazhenksii (Against the Current, Issue 118, September-October 2005). “The movement of the unemployed in St. Petersburg is a little-known episode of the First Russian Revolution of 1905-7.”

Lessons from the 1905 Revolution. By Hillel Ticktin (Against the Current, Issue 118, September-October 2005). “1905 was a decisive year in socialist history in that the working class movement developed two crucial weapons in its armory: Soviets (workers’ councils) … and the general strike.”

1905. By Tony Cliff (Socialist Review Review, Issue 72, January 1985). “Without the experience and lessons learnt in 1905 it is doubtful if the uprisings in 1917 would have led to the establishment of workers’ power.”

Wobblies of the World, Unite (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 18 December 2017). An interview with Peter Cole: “True to its name, the Industrial Workers of the World spanned the globe — an international history that has long been forgotten.”

One Big Union, one long fight. By Robert Young (Monthly Review, Vol.69, No.6, November 2017). Review of The Wobblies, a film directed by Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, 1979 (DVD/Docurama, 2006, 89 min.) + Fred W. Thompson and Jon Bekken, The Industrial Workers of the World: Its First Hundred Years (Cincinnati, IWW, 2006, 247 p.)

Founded on the class struggle (Socialist Review, Issue 417, October 2016). “In a new ten-part column John Newsinger tells the the remarkable story of US revolutionary trade unionists the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies.” Part 2: ‘Undesirable citizen’ (Issue 418, November 2016) + Part 3: ‘Driven by rage and desperatin’ (Issue 419, December 2016) + Part 4: Gurley Flynn will be the boss (Issue 420, January 2017) + Part 5: Hanging is not too good for them (Issue 421, February 2017) + Part 6: The IWW has stood with the negro (Issue 422, March 2017) + Part 7: A tale of two cities (Issue 423, April 2017) + Part 8: Songs the struggle taught us (Issue 424, May 2017) + Part 9: War and repression (Issue 425, June 2017) + Part 10: The turn to Bolshevism (Issue 426, July-August 2017).

The Wobblies in their heyday, a hard-headed history of the IWW. By Staughton Lynd (MRZine, 24 November 2014). Review of Eric Chester, The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era (Praeger, 2014, 316 p.)

The legacy of the IWW: To break their haughty power. By Joe Richard (International Socialist Review, Issue 86, November 2012). “The IWW tried to be both a union and a revolutionary organization at the same time, and in attempting this, never fully succeeded at either.”

Happy birthday Big Bill (Socialist Review, Issue 292, January 2005). “Mike Davis commemorates the centenary of a high point in American socialist history.”

Wobblies on the Southern home front. By Abra Quinn (Against the Current, No.116, May-June 2005). “However, the IWW successfully organized seamen and maritime workers in the docks and ports of Louisiana and Texas, on the Gulf, and also linked up with timber organizing in the Piney Woods stretching across Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.”

The Wobblies heritage. By Paul Buhle (Against the Current, No.115, March/April 2005). “The traditions of solidarity across national, race, gender and other boundaries are most meaningful for us today.”

Gifts of the IWW. By Joseph Grim Feinberg (Against the Current, Issue 118, September-October 2005). “After its found in 1905, the union quickly grew, already rivaling other leading unions in strength by the early 1910s and reaching its peak membership in 1923-24.”

30. juni 1905

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Einstein’s 1905 Revolution: New physics, new Century. By Ansar Fayyazuddin (Against the Current, No.116, May/June 2005). “Einstein’s three major contributions to Physics in 1905 were monumental.”

It’s all relative: Science and socialists. By Duncan Blackie (Socialist Worker Review, Issue 115, December 1988, p.26-27; online at Marxisme Online). “If you haven’t heard of any other twentieth century physicist, you’ll have heard of Albert Einstein. And with good reason: he laid the theoretical framework for the greatest revolution in physics for 250 years.”

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5. september 1905

The suffragette is selling the ‘Votes for Women’ newspaper outside Morley’s Hotel in Trafalgar Square. The ‘Votes for Women’ newspaper was one of several suffragette newspapers published during the early years of the 20th century, this particular edition was published on Friday 29th April 1910. Ca.1900-1919. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2678367136/in/set-72157606224254056/ Photo: Ch. Chusseau-Flaviens

13. oktober 1905

Det britiske Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) bliver til de militante suffragetter, da … “Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney, armed with a banner painted with ‘Votes for Women’ shouted their question to the Liberals in their meeting – ‘Will the Liberal Government give women the vote?'”

How struggle won women the vote. By Sarah Bates (Socialist Worker, Issue 2589, 29 January 2018). “A sea of suffragette colours will mark next week’s centenary of the Representation of the People Act. The Act gave some women in Britain the right to vote for the first time.”

Stealing the suffragettes: Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and false historical parallels (Counterfire, 19 April 2013). “Katherine Connelly explains why attempts to claim Thatcher as the heir to the suffragettes are a gross distortion of history and an attack on our struggles today.”

What did the Suffragettes do? (Johndclare.net). Extracts from Andrew Rosen, Rise Up, Women!: The Militant Campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union, 1903-1914 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974)

Thinking about Suffragette. By Alison Baldree (Against the Current, Issue 181, March-April 2016). “Suffragette focuses on rank-and-file women rather than on the leadership of the suffragette movement ”” a perspective not often told.”

Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette: What do Mrs. Pankhurst and an East End laundress have in common? By Joanne Laurier (World Socialist Web Site, 28 November 2015). “In the end, the film plays fast and loose with history in the interests of pushing a contemporary political agenda.”

Women against men? By Christina Black (Weekly Worker, Issue 1082, 12 November 2015). “Suffragette is essentially a period piece set around 1912-13, which combines historical and fictional characters in a drama depicting the women’s suffrage movement in Britain, culminating in the martyrdom of Emily Davison.”

Suffragette: on the side of the rebels. By Katherine Connelly (Counterfire, October 15, 2015). “Suffragette is a compelling and moving portrayal of the courage of ordinary women who dared to challenge the power of the British state.”

Suffragette – the revolt that won the vote. By Judith Orr (Socialist Worker, Issue 2475, 13 October 2015). “… it was more than a movement led by the middle classes seen in the new film Suffragette. It involved a mass movement …”

Why the suffragettes still matter: ‘they dared to act as the equals of men’ (The Guardian, 19 September 2015). “… we asked writers to reflect on the meanings and modern relevance of the militants’ direct action: Helen Lewis, Tessa Hadley, Jacqueline Rose, Sarah Crompton, Rachel Holmes, Bridget Christie.”

Genesis of ‘new Sinn Féin’ (Weekly Worker, Issue 1191, February 22, 2018). “Kevin Bean looks back to the 1980s and 90s and the taming of the republican movement.”

The end of the old brigade. By Daniel Finn (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 22 November 2017). “Gerry Adams is stepping down as Sinn Féin president – what legacy will his long leadership leave behind?”

The politics of Sinn Fein: rhetoric and reality. By Kieran Allen (Irish Marxist Review, Vol.3, No.11, 2014, p.4-15). “Sinn Fein’s primary aim now is to enter a government to manage Irish capitalism rather than abolish it.”